Manhattan's Skyline Will Look Dramatically Different By 2020

Midtown Manhattan is already home to a huge number of
skyscrapers, but the next generation of towers being built
between 53rd Street and the south side of Central
Park will be even taller.

One57 — the long-awaited,
90-story residential skyscraper that cost $1.4 billion to build — is almost finished, and
Extell’s Nordstrom Tower will eventually rise a vertigo-inducing
1,775 feet (including the tower’s spire), making it the tallest residential
building in the world.

Armand Boudreaux
at New York YIMBY, a website that covers
architecture, construction, and real estate in New York City,
recently created renderings that show how all
these new buildings will change the look of Manhattan, and shared
them with Business Insider (arrows and outlines are ours). Check
them out below.

This is what the skyline will look like in 2020, facing south
from the Central Park Zoo. Of these five buildings, the 90-story
One57 (second from the right) is the most complete. It cost $1.4
billion to build, and developers are expected to gross about
$2 billion in sales from the project. It's on
target to be finished this year.

From left to right: 432 Park Ave., 111 West 57th St., 53
53rd St., One57, and Nordstrom Tower.Courtesy
of YIMBY

Four of the five buildings
are concentrated on the west side of Midtown Manhattan. Nordstrom
Tower — the tall building on the far left — could take the title
of America's tallest roof from Chicago’s Willis Tower. It's
poised to become the tallest residential building in the entire
world at 1,775 feet (1,479 feet tall without its spire) when
it's completed in 2018.Courtesy
of YIMBY